Educational Infrastructure Quotes

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

When I was giving a lecture in India, the capabilities that I have to be concerned with there, namely the ability of people to go to a school, to be literate, to be able to have a basic health care everywhere, to be able to seek some kind of medical response to one's ailment; these become central issues in the Indian context which they're not in the UK, because you're well beyond that.

Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

In Burma, we need to improve education in the country - not only primary education, but secondary and tertiary education. Our education system is very very bad. But, of course, if you look at primary education, we have to think in terms of early childhood development that's going back to before the child is born - making sure the mother is well nourished and the child is properly nurtured.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that.

No country which is now developed has done so without providing high quality public education.

Private sector cannot substitute the role of the government in primary education.

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

We want to make access to a world-class education like clean drinking water or electricity.

Government school education across India is in shambles.

I've been building classrooms for children. Computer labs for kids. It's such a huge problem and so many children just aren't given a chance in life.

The quality of education today decides the tomorrow of Gujarat... Government may build schools, but the future can be built by the schools only. The key responsibility of building Gujarat's tomorrow thus lies with the schools.

School-houses are the republican line of fortifications

What I saw when I went to France was that really good quality education and childcare is seen there as a completely normal part of everyday life.